My first employment had the title "Waterboy"

My first job that was assigned to me with full parental backing was,

"Waterboy"..

At my age of about four and a half years old we had moved from Atmore to here at our farm in the Barnett Crossroads community.

Our land was purchased from my Daddy's siblings. Their inherited shares of my Smith grandparents homesteaded land lay fallow and waiting. The ending of WWII had my Daddy's work at the shipyard in Mobile phased out, my siblings kept being born, Daddy and Mama were on a hustle to feed us.

So, here we landed feet first in a place of hardscrabble heaven.

Daddy had made good money at the...